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lead thing in the woild breaks them, but then the 

 remedy is both ready and eafy : all you have to do, 

 is to provide your [elf with a fufficient quantity of 

 bark, guru, and roots; befides, there are few places 

 where you may not meet with gum and roots fuffi- 

 cient tor Hitching your canoe. 



What they call les Cafeades, is a rapide or fall, li- 

 ma ted exactly at the upper end of the ifland Perrot, 

 which feparates lake St. Lewis from the lake des 

 deux Montagnes. To fhun this, you keep a little to 

 the right, and make your canoes go empty over a 

 part of the river called le Trcu : you afterwards bring 

 them on more, and then make over a carrying place 

 of half a quarter of a league \ that is to fay, you 

 carry your canoe and all your baggage on your 

 fhoulders. Tins is to fhun a fecond rapide called 

 le Bcuijjon or the bum, being a fine meet of water, 

 falling from a flat rock of about a foot and a half 

 high. One might be delivered from this trouble by 

 hollowing a little the bed of a fmall river, which 

 difcharges itfelf into another above the Cafcades. 

 The expence would be no great matter. 



Above the Beuiffon % the river is a large quarter of 

 a league broad, and the lands on both fides are ex- 

 cellent and well wooded. They begin to clear thofe 

 lying on the northern bank, and it would be very 

 eafy to make a highway from the point oppofite to 

 the" ifland of Montreal, ,as far as the height or creek 

 called La Gakite. By this means one might fhun 

 £ pafifage of forty leagues, and a navigation render- 

 ed aimoft impracticable with Rapides, and always ex- 

 celling tedious. A fort would even be better placed at 

 La Galette, where it would alfo be of more fervice 

 than at Catarocoui, becaufe not a Angle canoe can 

 „ pafs it without being feen whereas at Catarocoui, 



they 



